Sycophant Synonyms and Antonyms

sĭkə-fənt, sīkə-
One who flatters another excessively
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. toady
  2. flatterer
  3. adulator
  4. fawner
  5. hanger-on
  6. parasite
  7. bootlicker
  8. lickspittle
  9. crawler
  10. flunky
  11. apple-polisher
  12. stooge
  13. yes-man
  14. lackey
  15. leech
  16. toadeater
  17. tufthunter
  18. flunkey
  19. timeserver
  20. cringer
  21. courtier
  22. truckler
  23. slave
  24. puppet
  25. brownnoser
  26. cat's-paw
  27. groveler
  28. spaniel
  29. lap-dog
  30. sniveler
  31. gofer
  32. brown-nose
  33. back-scratcher
  34. smoothie
  35. soft-soap artist
  36. baloneyer
  37. apple-saucer
  38. doormat
  39. ass-kisser
Antonyms:
  1. ruler
  2. master
  3. dictator

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Sycophant Sentence Examples

  • Such gesture, directed towards an inoffensive person, became an insult, and the word sycophant might imply one who insulted another by bringing a frivolous or malicious accusation against him.

  • Reinach (Revue des etudes grecques, xix., 1906), who draws special attention to the similar formation "hierophant," the sycophant was an official connected with the cult of the Phytalidae, whose eponymus Phytalus was rewarded with a fig-tree by the wandering Demeter in return for his hospitality.

  • The final act of the cult, the "exaltation" of the fig, with which Reinach compares the "exaltation" of the ear of corn by the hierophant at the Eleusinian mysteries, was performed by the sycophant.

  • Again, like the hierophant, the sycophant publicly pronounced the formula of exclusion of certain unworthy persons from the celebration of the mysteries of the fig.

  • The notorious fondness of the Athenians for litigation increased his power; and the practice of "sycophancy" (raking up material for false charges; see Sycophant), enabled him to remove those who were likely to endanger his ascendancy.

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